Archive for the ‘Too High To Fail’ Category

The View Eighteen Degrees to My Left

Even Though a Majority Favor the Drug Peace in My Own New Mexico (As We Do Nationwide), What I’m Noticing in Interviews Like This Terrifically Thorough Half-hour One With the Land of Enchantment PBS Affiliate’s “Newsmakers” Program, Is That The Most Most Mainstream of U.S. Media Platforms Take My “Ending the Drug War is Inevitable… Continue Reading »

Six Sense Serenade: The Promotion of Now

Posted on: January 10, 2013 in Doug Fine Live Event, Too High To Fail

The view from the peak of the Funky Butte Ranch arroyo run about which I’m always blogging on and on, including today   Why on Earth are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. –J. Lennon   One of the lasting lessons I learned early on my first extended trip into true… Continue Reading »

Indigenous Plus Netflix: “It’s Cool Because It’s Old” Also Applies to Plants

Posted on: November 16, 2012 in Doug Fine Live Event, Too High To Fail

Breaking News: My recent Conan O’Brien appearance is airing again on Monday (November 19) – Check it on TBS in your time zone. Helpful and supremely fun but non-mandatory pre-viewing reading: http://amzn.to/SJIs5i In This Latest Dispatch: Do Washington and Colorado Have You Singing “God Bless America”? You Haven’t Begun to Hear All The Good News:… Continue Reading »

America Adapts: The Drug Peace Transition Looks to Be a Smooth One

Posted on: October 16, 2012 in Doug Fine Live Event, Too High To Fail

  Well, We Can Add C-Span’s BookTV To the Vast and Growing List of Mainstream Media Venues Whose Deciders Seem Fine With An Hour-long, Nationally Broadcast Invocation For the Drug Peace   Conan’s on Board (along with Pat Robertson and Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State George Shultz)   Best of all, well, there’s nothing like… Continue Reading »

Today’s Busy Shaman’s One-Minute Recipe For Bliss: Allow For Smooth Goat Homespace Reentry Time

Posted on: September 10, 2012 in Doug Fine Live Event, Too High To Fail

  BBC TV Takes the TOO HIGH TO FAIL Drug Peace Message Across the Pond   The TOO HIGH TO FAIL Pax Cannabis Tour Bus   ReasonTV’s TOO HIGH TO FAIL Interview, as Shouted Out By the Angels at bOING bOING “Let it rain. Let it rain. Let your love rain down on me.” –Eric… Continue Reading »

PSYCHC CROSS-TRAINING: Leaving Rural Ranch Life (At the Peak of Monsoon!) For Book Tour Sushi And a Possible End To the Drug War

Posted on: August 2, 2012 in Doug Fine Live Event, Too High To Fail

*Video: doug on conan DOUG ON CONAN (Above) *BREAKING NEWS: CLICK FOR BILL MAHER’S REVIEW OF TOO HIGH TO FAIL IN THE NEW YORK TIMES*   While I was packing for the above television appearance last week (despite not owning a television, though Netflix and Hulu make rapid familiarization a lot easier), I was reflecting… Continue Reading »

Thank You, Zeitgeist Gatekeepers, For Smiling On the Dawn of the Drug Peace Era

Posted on: July 9, 2012 in Doug Fine Live Event, Too High To Fail

[Pre-order the new book: TOO HIGH TO FAIL] Timing is on my mind as the first Monsoon drizzles fall like a massage on my incontrovertibly red neck here in the high desert of the Funky Butte Ranch. In particular, I’m noticing something in the final lunar cycle before this book I’ve written about the last… Continue Reading »

The Electron Kaleidoscope: In Which the Annual Threshold of “Siesta or Die” Is Crossed On A Strong Day of Mutual Multi-Generational Homeschooling

Posted on: June 13, 2012 in Doug Fine Live Event, Too High To Fail

*See the short film about and pre-order the new book: TOO HIGH TO FAIL*   It took six years and one wilderness horseback trip with an Apache guide (that for a magazine assignment: what would I do without flukes delicately placed alongside flukes?) for me to realize it, but I can actually see (and in… Continue Reading »

Still Seeking Double Digits In The Land of The Eduringly Free (Or, Transcending Even The ‘Most People Would Rather Be Here’ Fall-back Realization)

Posted on: May 23, 2012 in Doug Fine Live Event, Too High To Fail

  “I think he makes movies so he doesn’t think about dying.” –Robert Weide, on Woody Allen   *See the short film about and pre-order the forthcoming book: TOO HIGH TO FAIL*   Over the past five years, I’ve on at least three distinct occasions come to be grateful literally beyond words for a style… Continue Reading »

Appreciation Overlap: Why the Funky Butte Owls Are Family

Posted on: April 30, 2012 in Doug Fine Live Event, Too High To Fail

[*See the short film about and pre-order my new book: TOO HIGH TO FAIL*]   It was so quiet on my canyon run this morning that the wing thrusts of the resident courting ravens’ wings actually echoed as they dove. I heard each one distinctly twice. Always a good sign when it comes to emotional… Continue Reading »